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A day after the CBI filed a chargesheet in the <keyword id="420379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="coal-scam">Coal scam</keyword> case, a <keyword id="121350" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="special-court">Special Court</keyword> today rapped the central investigative agency for not impounding the passport of Congress leader and industrialist <keyword id="11128" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Naveen-Jindal">Naveen Jindal</keyword>, chargesheeted along with 14 others in the scam, saying the agency cannot adopt a different policy for some of the accused. 
 <keyword id="219589" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Special-CBI-Judge">Special CBI Judge</keyword> Bharat Parashar also asked the <keyword id="84586" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="CBI-director">CBI Director</keyword> to ensure that a uniform policy is laid down for seizure of passports of accused during the probe in the case. 
 
"It is clear that while a uniform policy which appears to have been adopted by CBI is that passports of all accused are seized by them whenever a case is registered, but in the present case a different policy was adopted for the reasons best known to them," the judge observed. 
 
During the hearing, senior public prosecutor V K Sharma told the court that it was decided in CBI's office that passport of Naveen Jindal will not be seized during the probe. 
 
The investigating officer told the court that a notice was issued to Jindal to submit his passport before the CBI but after taking some time he gave a coloured copy of his passport to the agency with a request that his passport be not seized. 
 
To this, the court said, "CBI Director is directed to ensure that a uniform policy is laid down to be followed in all cases in future so that precious time of this court is not wasted." 
 
During the hearing, the agency said that out of the 10 individual accused, charge sheeted in the case, passports of two accused-- Suresh Singhal and Rajeev Jain-- were seized. 
 Court has now fixed the matter for May 6 for considering the CBI charge sheet filed in the case yesterday against Jindal, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, formerJharkhand Chief Minister <keyword id="57155" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Madhu-Koda">Madhu Koda</keyword> and 12 others in connection with Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block allocation scam case. 
 Besides them, former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and five firms, including <keyword id="106159" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jindal-Steel">Jindal Steel</keyword> and Power Ltd and <keyword id="1725858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jindal-Realty-Pvt-Ltd">Jindal Realty Pvt Ltd</keyword>, were also chargesheeted in the case for alleged offences under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) read with 420 (cheating) of IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Coalgate scam: Court asks CBI why it didn't impound Naveen Jindal's Passport

Jharkhand Assembly Elections are nearing and the state is now gearing up to select the next government that will take charge of the state’s Vidhan Sabha once the term of the present government ends on 5 January 2020. The election scene in the state is turning highly interesting with some top candidates eyeing the CM seat. We see the following names in the CM race in Jharkhand now. Raghubar Das Raghubar Das is the first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand who completed the full term of his office on the CM seat after the formation of the state in 2000. Representing BJP, he became the CM following 2014 assembly elections as the party could get 37 seats and form the coalition government with AJSU which contributed its 5 seats to form a majority government with 42 seats. Never to miss another chance to become the CM this time, Raghubar Das might be contesting from Ranchi or Dhanbad in addition to his home constituency Jamshedpur East in the upcoming 2019 assembly elections. Babulal Marandi Babulal Marandi earlier represented BJP and became the first chief minister of the state in the interim government formed for the assembly in November 2000 and remained in power for two years till March 2003. In 2006, he left BJP and formed JVM (Jharkhand Vikas Morcha). Babulal Marandi contested from two seats in 2014 assembly elections. Unfortunately he lost both these seats. This time, he said he will be reattempting to fight from two constituencies as he did in 2014 elections. Hemant Soren in the shadow of Shibu Soren Following Shibu Soren’s retirement from public life, his son Heman Soren emerges from his shadow to provide the leadership to JMM. In 2005 elections, Shibu Soren’s JMM won from 17 seats. Though BJP secured 30 seats, Shibu Soren became the CM and remained in the office only for 10 days as he failed to prove his majority support. Between 2008 and 2010, Shibu Soren became the CM of Jharkhand two times. And the state was put under the president’s rule successively. Shibu Soren also became the CM for four months till January 2009 after Madhu Koda, an independent resigned. Between June and September, Shibu Soren once again became the CM for just five months. This time, JMM, INC and RJD are together facing the assembly elections in the state and the alliance has said the former CM of Jharkhand Hemant Soren will be the CM face of the mahagathbandhan for the upcoming elections. In 2014 assembly elections, Hemant Soren represented his party JMM by contesting from two seats namely Dumka and Barhet, but lost Dumka and could win only from Barhet. Gourav Vallabh The Congress Party is fielding Gaurav Vallabh as the party’s chief minister candidate for the upcoming assembly elections in Jharkhand. Gaurav Vallabh served as the professor in finance at XLRI Management Institute in Jamshedpur. Born in a family of academicians, he is the first one to join politics. His recent debate in the media with BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra helped him rise to prominence.

These Names Are In CM Race In Jharkhand assembly Election

In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, there was a huge controversy when <keyword id="1275069" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sanjay-Baru">Sanjay Baru</keyword>, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s media advisor, released a book <keyword id="2193106" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="The-Accidental-Prime-Minister">The Accidental Prime Minister</keyword>: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh. In this book, he alleged that the PM did not exercise full control over the government and was remote-controlled by the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. 
 However, this was not a one-off case in Indian politics. There have many instances of ‘<keyword id="2443943" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Accidental-Chief-Ministers">accidental chief ministers</keyword>’ taking office in various states. The latest example is Bihar’s new <keyword id="5269" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chief-Minister">Chief Minister</keyword> <keyword id="6385519" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jitan-Ram-Manjhi">Jitan Ram Manjhi</keyword>. Following the dismal performance of his party, the Janata Dal (United), in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, <keyword id="6358190" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Nitish-Kumar">Nitish Kumar</keyword> played the tried and tested caste card and anointed Manjhi – who belongs to the Musahar caste (the most backward caste among the Dalits) – as the state’s chief minister. Manjhi is not known for his administrative skills and is widely regarded as Nitish’s ‘puppet.’ BJP’s <keyword id="6364740" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Sushil-Kumar-Modi">Sushil Kumar Modi</keyword>, Bihar’s former deputy chief minister, even dubbed Manjhi as "<keyword id="2443948" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="dummy-chief-minister">dummy chief minister</keyword>." 
 
 
 
In Bihar itself, on July 25, 1997, the then Chief Minister Lalu Yadav was forced to quit after an arrest warrant was issued against him in connection with the <keyword id="6362256" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Fodder-scam">fodder scam</keyword> case. In order to retain hold on power, he brazenly installed his wife <keyword id="6362315" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rabri-Devi">Rabri Devi</keyword>, who was not only a political novice but was also illiterate, as chief minister of Bihar. 
 

	Rabri Devi earned the dubious distinction of being the <keyword id="2443949" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="first-illiterate-chief-minister">first illiterate chief minister</keyword> of a state. Interestingly, in the press conference following her swearing-in ceremony, Lalu asked reporters not to pose tricky questions to her as she was new to politics and a “seedhi-saadi aurat.” 
	 
	 
	 In the neighbouring state of Jharkhand, Madhu Koda, an independent MLA, was propped up as chief minister by Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, <keyword id="6362712" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jharkhand-Mukti-Morcha">Jharkhand Mukti Morcha</keyword> and the Congress. It was Lalu’s masterstroke to keep the BJP away from power. It was also for the first time that an independent MLA was made the chief minister of a state.<o:p></o:p>
He is known only for the large-scale corruption that marked his rule. Koda allegedly took huge bribes for illegally allotting iron ore and coal mining contracts as the chief minister of the state. According to estimates, Koda and his associates accumulated Rs 4,000 crore in the mining scam. He was also arrested and he is currently out on bail. 
 In Maharashtra, <keyword id="6356262" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Prithviraj-Chavan">Prithviraj Chavan</keyword> was appointed the chief minister after Ashok Chavan had to step down from the chief minister's post after the allegations of his involvement in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Prithviraj Chavan, who is not a significant political figure, has still not been able to have a firm grip either on the party or the government. He had no experience of the state politics of Maharashtra and was directly paratrooped as the state’s chief minister. Although he has been in politics for almost three decades, he was never a member of the state legislature. 
 <keyword id="172066" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sadanand-Gowda">Sadanand Gowda</keyword>, who is the current railway minister, was the self-proclaimed ‘accidental chief minister' as he had himself once admitted that he was an accidental CM. He said he had never thought he would become chief minister one day. Gowda said his “politics of love” was the reason behind his accomplishment.

The Making And Unmaking Of Accidental Chief Ministers

Over the last few years, surfacing of a string of multi-billion scams has shaken the trust of global investors in the Indian economy. The first of the recent scams was the 2G telecommunication license sales in 2008 which allegedly cost the Indian state $39 billion in lost license fee due to under-selling. It also led to estrangement between Congress and <keyword id="6355364" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UPA">UPA</keyword> ally <keyword id="6357766" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="DMK">DMK</keyword> which accused the former of not protecting party leader A Raja who was heading the telecom ministry when the scam broke. The second was the illegal sale of iron ore worth billions of dollars to China by firms related to G Janardhan Reddy, whose meteoric rise to economic and political prominence from being an anonymous employee of local chit fund near Bellary in Karnataka proved what one could achieve if he/she has the right political connections to supplement inherent shrewdness. The third was the alleged siphoning off of around $1 billion by Madhu Koda, former chief minister and mining minister of Jharkhand, reportedly amassed through corrupt mining deals during his ministerial tenure. 
 While <keyword id="46183" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Corruption">corruption</keyword> is nothing new in the Indian socio-political space, these recent high-profile scams have made global investors jittery about investing in the country as their long-prevailing skepticism in India’s ability to emerge a mature economy without traces of corruption ballooned. 
 
The move from ‘license Raj’—where businesses were governed by rules and quotas aided by bribes to bureaucrats—to liberalization opened fresh, widened opportunities for bribery and graft, as sectors like real estate, metals, mining, infrastructure, aerospace, defense, power and utilities became multi-billion juggernauts governed by poorly paid officials. Over the years, graft has become such an integral part of Indian reality that corruption is seen as a normal way of life and only a few people think the ‘powerful’ can be put behind bars for indulging in and enhancing an ever-growing system of bribery. Of late, of the 10 biggest family firms by sales, seven have faced controversies related to corruption and kickbacks. In a recent survey, 95 per cent of Indians said corruption became a larger menace over the last five years. According to Transparency International, an organization that tracks corruption, 54 per cent of Indians say they paid a bribe in the last year, compared with Nigeria with 44 per cent and Indonesia with 36 per cent. 
 
The huge amount of money siphoned off by industrialists and politicians to clandestine entities domiciled in countries with friendly tax regime and regulatory rules have further enhanced the nature and scope of corruption. Bribes are also transferred to entities outside India through what is called ‘mis-invoicing’. For instance, an outfit in India controlled by a politician buys gold jewelery worth millions of dollars from a firm domiciled in a free-trade zone such as Dubai at exaggerated prices and imports it. The excess tax-free earnings are pocketed outside India in a firm controlled by the same person with limited scope of scrutiny and investigation. According to research organization Global Financial Integrity, gross illicit outflows from India have averaged $52 billion a year since 2007. The unaccounted-for money held in global banks including those in Switzerland adds to the enormity of the problem. Offshore assets of Indian residents held in global banks are estimated to be close to $150 billion. 
 
The country cannot be imagined to be on the road to growth without the contribution of the private sector that plays a role in building factories, roads and larger infrastructure. However, for getting required permission for these infrastructural initiatives, companies in these sectors need to grease the palm of ministers, politicians and bureaucrats. They also need to pay ‘speed money’ to avoid red tape. 
 
Corruption leaves a dent on the country’s economy in various ways. First, graft means lost revenues from privatisation, taxation, excise and customs. It also impedes investment and in turn growth, besides hurting the poor who are left to bear the brunt of ‘cost overruns’ passed on by corporates through spiked prices of products and services. 
 
A core trigger for graft is the funding of political parties, especially to meet election expenses. As political parties assume power, they have a clear obligation to ‘pay back’ their spongers in the corporate world and other wealthy individuals who lavishly open their wallets for helping them win polls. 
 
The application filed in the Supreme Court by the Narendra Modi-led government recently saying it cannot disclose the details of foreign accounts held abroad by Indians, citing bilateral double taxation avoidance treaties, means that the new regime needs more concrete steps to fight such issues otherwise it may not be fundamentally different from the previous UPA government when it comes to uprooting corruption. Modi government needs to take drastic steps including measures to curb funding of political parties and elections by corporates and to dig out sources of billions of <keyword id="6356023" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Black-Money">black money</keyword> held outside the country, to win back trust of the global investment community and enhance the scope of overall economic growth.

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